EA Sports is facing a backlash from FIFA 20 players over its handling of a glitch that saw thousands of players obtain a coveted FIFA Ultimate Team card for a fraction of the intended price.
The card in question was the 88-rated Player of the Month Wissam Ben Yedder, a much better version of the Monaco striker’s standard card with impressive statistics.
EA Sports made PotM Ben Yedder the reward for the recently uploaded Ligue 1 Player of the Month Squad Building Challenge (SBC). This particular SBC required the exchange of five separate squads to complete, each with different requirements revolving around the likes of nationality, team rating and chemistry.
One of the required squads, which rewarded the player with a rare electrum players pack, needed to have an overall team rating of 86, but due to a mystery bug, the team players actually had to exchange only needed to have an overall rating of 80, which made it much easier – and cheaper, if you were looking to buy cards from the live marketplace to complete the SBC. The cost difference was estimated to be somewhere between 150,000 and 200,000 coins, which is a fair chunk.